David Stubbs, head of sustainability, London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games

David Stubbs is Head of Sustainability for the London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, a role he has held since joining the London 2012 Bid team in November 2003. In this role he is responsible for developing and coordinating the sustainability programme for the London 2012 Games.

He is an internationally renowned specialist in the field of sport and environment. During the 1990s he was Director of the European Golf Association Ecology Unit and he established the first pan-European environmental management programme for golf courses.

In 1998 he began advising the British Olympic Association on environmental matters and in 2000 he worked with the Environment Team at the Sydney Olympics.

His career started in the field of conservation biology and he is a full member of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management and a Chartered Environmentalist.